Hi. I’m back in town now.

Louisville was cool. We didn’t really get to go sight seeing or anything, and actually ended up up busting our ass the whole time we were there. We worked about 46 hours in the three days we were there, so needless to say I’m pretty damn tired having to come back to work after getting in around midnight.

I don’t know if I mentioned why I was going down there. We are setting up a satellite office down there, for industrial sales. We needed to get them connected to our system, set a bunch of processess for converting their old customers and vendors (the new employees are all from the same company), and get them working on our software. The whole time there, they all thought I was in IT. That’s all I told them, because I didn’t want them probing me for information about our company. That’s not my gig, and if they new my title I know they would have. Actually, one of the guys did ask me about sales totals to which I replied that I didn’t know. He got the hint, and left me alone after that.

So, about the trip.

Let’s see, the drive pretty much sucked balls. Although I can’t imagine a 6 hour drive anywhere NOT sucking balls, so that was expected. Man, Ohio is the worst state to drive through. That trip down I-75 through northern Ohio is terrible. Once you get to Dayton though, the scenery get’s better, and riving through Cincy and the border there with Kentucky was cool.

So we got down to Louisville and the location and waited for the guys to meet us at the building to let us in. After going into work at 7:30 that morning, leaving for Louisville at 1, and arriving there at 7, the only thing on my mind was working another 5-6 hours.

Okay, that’s not entirely true, that’s just what actually friggin happened. At the end of that hellacious day, it was off to find a hotel room after midnight. Ken said to me “what are we going to do about the room we get, and the arrangements” to which I replied “that’s easy, I’m going to get my own room, and you can do whatever you want in yours”.

So I got in my hotel room at the Hilton around 1ish and finally crashed out for the night.

Wake up and get to work at 8 the next morning, and work non-stop till about 7:30 when we left to go to Ruth’s Chris for dinner. The restaurant was on top of an office building hi-rise and had a great view of down town Louisville, albeit from far away. We met Jim (my boss that flew down that day) and Mark and Aaron Mivelaz who are running the satellite office. It was a nice dinner, and a lot of conversation about the direction of their office and how we we’re going to approach this new venture. The dinner ran a little late, and after driving Jim to his hotel, Ken and I were once again pretty damn tired by the time we got back to ours. So, it was hit the room, and crash again.

6:45am came real quick the next day. We were going to meet a bunch of the new employees, so we said we would be in at 7:30am. Since Ken and I were the last to leave the building the night before, we had a key to lock up. When we picked up Jim at 7:15, we debated whether or not to get some breakfast, or to just go in. We decided to go in, and it’s a good thing too. When we arrived at the new building, everyone was standing in the parking lot. Yeah, turns out, we had the only key, lol. We laughed at the possibilty of everyone standning in the parking lot, on that muggy-ass morning, while we ate breakfast.

That day Ken worked on connectivity in the office, and I trained the new employees on our system. It was more of just showing it to them, since it is a lot of information to take in at once. I’ll officially train them when I go back in a few weeks. We worked until just after 6pm, when we hopped back on the road to head home. The ride home seemed shorter then the ride down. I think it’s because we are seeing landmarks that look familiar to us now. They way down, we were flying blind.

Got home about midnight, and got up at 6:30am to go to work.

It’s been a long week, and I’m ready for the weekend. As luck would have it, I promised my Dad I would help him out this Saturday, lol. He only asks me a few times to help him out, but what timing. It’s not a hard job, or long day or anything, it’s just a little funny how that worked out.